The Weekly - #1

'The Weekly' is a micro-blog of interesting or curious content from around the web. You can expect to see topics such as engineering, startups, APIs, open source and community... and anything in between that I find interesting.

August 26, 2017 · 1 minute read

Welcome to the first regular “The Weekly”. This week’s links span APIs, serverless and engineering culture; relevant to both your technology and your teams.
There’s also some interesting conferences with an open call for proposals that you’ll find below too.

I see so many debates about API versioning and so few about API change management. API microversioning is an interesting proposal to articulate programmatically, incremental and backwards compatible changes within an API.

A code of conduct is one of the red/green flags I use to gauge a conference. In this post Kylie, shares a personal story of how codes of conduct need to also have a transparent commitment on actionable responses.

I’ve been doing a lot of serverless Python using Zappa (running on AWS lambda). Karl’s post is an interesting and somewhat lighthearted comparison of ‘serverless’ vs. containers and Kubernetes. Definitely a good cursory read for anyone exploring the next evolution of their architecture.

Donna Boyer (Director of Product at Airbnb) has some wonderful tips to share on overcoming imposter syndrome. This blog, recounted by Keran McKenzie, was a collection of advice shared by Donna in her presentation at Girls in Tech last month. Highly recommended reading!

What’s on?

I’ve also been presenting on serverless this week, doing a rendition of “Lessons learned from building serverless services” talk at MYOB’s tech talks in Sydney! I’ve previously presented this talk at #pyconau.

Don’t forget both KiwiPycon and YOW!’s CTO summit CFP’s are currently open. If you’re the presenting type its worth adding these to your list!

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